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The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Jane Mayer, Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colón, Scott Horton
fruitpit's review against another edition
2.0
a hassle to get through.
decent artwork.
very repetitive in effort to drive home important points but i was hoping for something else. felt like an argumentative paper at points given its structure.
wish the text was more narrative rather than essentially info summarizing.
all that aside, a great summary/intro to a hundreds/thousands of pages long report.
fuck the cia.
decent artwork.
very repetitive in effort to drive home important points but i was hoping for something else. felt like an argumentative paper at points given its structure.
wish the text was more narrative rather than essentially info summarizing.
all that aside, a great summary/intro to a hundreds/thousands of pages long report.
fuck the cia.
chelseamartinez's review against another edition
3.0
This is a really good visual fact check of the CIA's torture program during the Bush administration, adapted from the 2014 Senate report on torture itself. The Afterword is also excellent and describes the uniqueness of the report as well as its shortcomings. The graphic novel itself would be great for a high school history course, I think. When I was in high school I always wished that we would cover the recent past, but we stopped at -30 years or so (pre-Tonkin Gulf Resolution, at the time). This is succinct, based in fact, but much less dry and humanizing to the victims of the CIA's torture campaigns. The sheer number of things it pinpoints as untruths from the CIA is impressive and makes me grateful to the Congressional staffers who did this work.
antireading's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Islamophobia
frogggirl2's review against another edition
dark
informative
slow-paced
This is a book I expect will be banned from libraries but instead should be mandatory high school history education. This is an easily understandable account of how the US government perpetrated torture. How are we going to prevent this from happening again if no one's aware of this or knows the truth?
That said, this is a bit dry and, as you would expect, the subject matter is very difficult.
That said, this is a bit dry and, as you would expect, the subject matter is very difficult.
benjaminbaron99's review against another edition
2.0
Repetitive with a confusing layout and bad art. It would have been more enlightening if there was more coherence in the entire presentation.
noveladdiction's review against another edition
3.0
I'm glad I read a graphic novel version of this rather than the actual report, because I'm sure I couldn't have handled any graphic details of what happened that might have been included.
That said, this is a graphic novel sooo... it has it's own graphic details.
That said, this is a graphic novel sooo... it has it's own graphic details.